Swimming at the Friendship Games

Swimming at the Friendship Games took place at the Swimming Pool at the Olimpiysky Sports Complex in Moscow, Soviet Union between 19 August and 25 August 1984. 29 events (15 men's and 14 women's) were contested.

## Medal summary

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### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m freestyle  |  Sergey Smiriagin (URS) | 50.26  |  Aleksey Markovsky (URS) | 50.39  |  Sven Lodziewski (GDR) | 50.58
200 m freestyle  |  Sven Lodziewski (GDR) | 1:49.83  |  Vladimir Shemetov (URS) | 1:50.33  |  Sergey Krasyuk (URS) | 1:51.09
400 m freestyle  |  Vladimir Salnikov (URS) | 3:49.27  |  Sven Lodziewski (GDR) | 3:50.98  |  Sviatoslav Semenov (URS) | 3:53.34
1500 m freestyle  |  Vladimir Salnikov (URS) | 15:03.51  |  Uwe Dassler (GDR) | 15:11.14  |  Sviatoslav Semenov (URS) | 15:25.56
100 m backstroke  |  Dirk Richter (GDR) | 55.67  |  Vladimir Shemetov (URS) | 55.88  |  Frank Baltrusch (GDR) | 56.39
200 metre backstroke  |  Sergei Zabolotnov (URS) | 1:58.41
(WR) |  Vladimir Shemetov (URS) | 1:59.54  |  Dirk Richter (GDR) | 2:00.30
100 metre breaststroke  |  Dmitry Volkov (URS) | 1:03.72  |  Robertas Žulpa (URS) | 1:03.87  |  Sigurd Hanke (GDR) | 1:05.16
200 metre breaststroke  |  Robertas Žulpa (URS) | 2:15.70  |  Dmitry Volkov (URS) | 2:16.97  |  Albán Vermes (HUN) | 2:21.19
100 metre butterfly  |  Aleksey Markovsky (URS) | 54.26  |  Alexandr Prigoda (URS) | 55.08  |  Marcel Géry (TCH) | 55.17
200 metre butterfly  |  Alexandr Prigoda (URS) | 1:58.83  |  Sergey Fesenko, Sr. (URS) | 1:59.52  |  Marcel Géry (TCH) | 2:00.34
200 metre individual medley  |  Jens-Peter Berndt (GDR) | 2:02.51  |  Josef Hladký (TCH) | 2:03.33  |  Aleksandr Sidorenko (URS) | 2:03.35
400 metre individual medley  |  Jens-Peter Berndt (GDR) | 4:18.29  |  Sergey Pichugin (URS) | 4:25.19  |  Josef Hladký (TCH) | 4:26.29
4×100 m freestyle relay  |  Soviet Union (URS)
Sergey Smiriagin
Sergey Kurbatov
Sergey Krasyuk
Aleksey Markovsky
| 3:20.19  |  East Germany (GDR)
Dirk Richter
Rene Wanzlik
Sven Lodziewski
Reiner Sternal
| 3:22.92  |  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Jarmil Proněk
Petr Kladiva
Josef Hladký
Marcel Géry
| 3:27.31
4×200 m freestyle relay  |  East Germany (GDR)
Dirk Richter
Steffen Liess
Reiner Sternal
Sven Lodziewski
| 7:20.78  |  Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Shemetov
Andrei Liashenko
Vladimir Salnikov
Sergey Krasyuk | 7:22.31  |  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Martin Dvořák
Petr Kladiva
Josef Hladký
Marcel Géry | 7:24.78
4×100 m medley relay  |  Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Shemetov
Dmitry Volkov
Aleksey Markovsky
Sergey Smiriagin | 3:42.15  |  East Germany (GDR)
Dirk Richter
Sigurd Hanke
Tino Ott
Sven Lodziewski
| 3:43.23  |  Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Josef Hladký
Petr Matoušek
Petr Kladiva
Marcel Géry | 3:43.25

### Women's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m freestyle  |  Kristin Otto (GDR) | 55.75  |  Birgit Meineke (GDR) | 55.79  |  Svitlana Kopchykova (URS) | 56.53
200 m freestyle  |  Kristin Otto (GDR) | 1:59.48  |  Birgit Meineke (GDR) | 2:00.15  |  Svitlana Kopchykova (URS) | 2:00.47
400 m freestyle  |  Astrid Strauss (GDR) | 4:07.66  |  Irina Laricheva (URS) | 4:09.70  |  Anke Sonnenbrodt (GDR) | 4:16.21
800 m freestyle  |  Astrid Strauss (GDR) | 8:24.95  |  Grit Richter (GDR) | 8:33.47  |  Irina Laricheva (URS) | 8:39.57
100 m backstroke  |  Ina Kleber (GDR) | 1:00.99  |  Kristin Otto (GDR) | 1:02.02  |  Viktoriya Klochko (URS) | 1:03.67
200 m backstroke  |  Katrin Zimmermann (GDR) | 2:12.56  |  Yelena Dendeberova (URS) | 2:13.31  |  Kristin Otto (GDR) | 2:15.16
100 m breaststroke  |  Sylvia Gerasch (GDR) | 1:08.29
(WR) |  Ute Geweniger (GDR) | 1:08.59  |  Larisa Byelokon (URS) | 1:09.63
200 metre breaststroke  |  Larisa Byelokon (URS) | 2:29.13  |  Sylvia Gerasch (GDR) | 2:29.62  |  Yelena Volkova (URS) | 2:32.36
100 metre butterfly  |  Tatyana Kurnikova (URS) | 59.41  |  Ines Geißler (GDR) | 1:00.09  |  Yelena Osadchuk (URS) | 1:01.33
200 m butterfly  |  Ines Geißler (GDR) | 2:09.96  |  Yelena Osadchuk (URS) | 2:11.76  |  Tatyana Kurnikova (URS) | 2:12.41
200 m individual medley  |  Ute Geweniger (GDR) | 2:11.79  |  Yelena Dendeberova (URS) | 2:14.56  |  Svitlana Kopchykova (URS) | 2:15.40
400 m individual medley  |  Yelena Dendeberova (URS) | 4:43.78  |  Kathleen Nord (GDR) | 4:49.49  |  Sonia Blagova (BUL) | 4:52.35
4×100 m freestyle relay  |  East Germany (GDR)
Kristin Otto
Caren König
Heike Friedrich
Birgit Meineke
| 3:42.41
(WR) |  Soviet Union (URS)
Svitlana Kopchykova
Svetlana Didienko
Tatyana Kurnikova
Yelena Dendeberova
| 3:44.31  |  Hungary (HUN)
Edit Ormos
Katalin Nagy
Ágnes Fodor
Andrea Orosz
| 3:55.42
4×100 m medley relay  |  East Germany (GDR)
Ina Kleber
Sylvia Gerasch
Ines Geißler
Birgit Meineke
| 4:03.69
(WR) |  Soviet Union (URS)
Viktoriya Klochko
Larisa Byelokon
Tatyana Kurnikova
Svitlana Kopchykova
| 4:08.13  |  Bulgaria (BUL)
Bistra Gospodinova
Tanya Bogomilova
Radosveta Pironkova
Vanja Argirova
| 4:16.74

## World records broken

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Five new world records were set.

### Men's

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Event | Name | Nationality | Result

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Men's 200 metre backstroke | Sergei Zabolotnov |  Soviet Union | 1:58.41

### Women's

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Event | Name | Nationality | Result

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Women's 100 m backstroke | Ina Kleber |  East Germany | 1:00.59
Women's 100 m breaststroke | Sylvia Gerasch |  East Germany | 1:08.29
Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay | Kristin Otto
Caren König
Heike Friedrich
Birgit Meineke
|  East Germany | 3:42.41
Women's 4×100 m medley relay | Ina Kleber
Sylvia Gerasch
Ines Geißler
Birgit Meineke |  East Germany | 4:03.69

## Medal table

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* Host nation (Soviet Union)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  East Germany (GDR)| 16| 12| 6| 34
2|  Soviet Union (URS)*| 13| 16| 13| 42
3|  Czechoslovakia (TCH)| 0| 1| 6| 7
4|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 0| 0| 2| 2
Hungary (HUN)| 0| 0| 2| 2
Totals (5 entries)| 29| 29| 29| 87

## See also

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* Swimming at the 1984 Summer Olympics

## References

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* Chmielewski, Zbigniew; et al. (1987). Na olimpijskim szlaku 1984. Sarajewo, Los Angeles (in Polish). Warsaw: Sport i Turystyka. pp. 173–174, 216–218\. ISBN 83-217-2610-0.
* Trzciński, Tomasz; et al. (1985). Gwiazdy sportu '84 (in Polish). Warsaw: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza. pp. 89–91\. ISBN 83-03-01177-4.

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